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  • Texans protest family separation at U.S.-Mexico border

    Texans protest family separation at U.S.-Mexico border

    This story was originally printed in the fall 2018 version of Fellowship! Magazine. By Ashleigh Bugg The children’s detention center is housed in an old Walmart building in Brownsville, Texas. The former big box retailer can hold roughly 1,500 children who have been separated from their parents, many against their will. “The detention centers have…

  • Learning Spanish through Netflix

    Learning Spanish through Netflix

    My favorite Spanish language films streaming on Netflix When I was translating for Latino immigrants, I practiced my rusty Spanish by watching movies. I learned different slang and dialects based on the time period or location of films set in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Bolivia and Argentina. I’ve heard what life might sound like in rural…